Recycled paper, demolished villages, post-earthquake rubble and disused shipping containers: five projects show how waste can be transformed into a creative, economic and cultural resource.
Just installed in the garden of the Serpentine Gallery, the new Pavilion is explained by its designers Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo: a device for observing the site, understanding how things are built, and rediscovering architecture as an elemental experience.
Before the Bosco Verticale became the global icon of green architecture, Luciano Pia was designing 25 Verde in Torino – a condominium where trees, soil, terraces, and microclimate are not mere decoration, but an integral part of the building itself. It now opens for Open House Torino 2026.
Pratic’s headquarters in Fagagna, designed by Geza, uses shadow, landscape and the unfinished to transform an industrial complex into an architecture that engages in dialogue with its surroundings.
TikTok rediscovers Copenhagen's Grundtvigs Kirke, a monument of Brick Expressionism built over nearly two decades by three generations of the same family of architects.
With the renovation and extension of a facility that accommodates children undergoing cancer therapy, ALA.rquitectos explores the most vulnerable aspects of living, transforming a care setting into a place of comfort and belonging.
The restoration of Ca' Priuli in Vicenza demonstrates how the demands of modern living can coexist with history. This ethical project, initiated by Andrea Crisanti, sees the restoration become an integral part of the landscape.
The final piece of the vast CityLife redevelopment will be completed in the coming months: two office towers connected by a gigantic curved canopy, combining urban ambition, suspended terraces, and the idea of a new “gateway” to Milan.
In her new text, the Franco-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh reflects on Beirut, archaeology, nature and continuous transformation, imagining architecture not as a stable form but as matter in constant motion.
For this high-density residential complex, Anonimous + G3 + Jesús Vassallo soften the dark, solemn volumes inspired by Brutalism with a lattice of sun-shading screens drawn from local tradition.
This house appears as a “borderline” between the man-made and the natural landscape. Developed horizontally and crossed by a network of internal courtyards, the villa dissolves its own volume into the surrounding environment.
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
Designed by Arii Irie Architects, the Villa in Saitama overcomes the spatial constraints of its plot by rotating it by 45 degrees. This restores unobstructed views and access to natural light, as well as providing visual independence from the surrounding buildings' dense, grid-like layout.
In Manila, along the Pasig River, the new art center designed by Kulapat Yantrasast for Ayala Foundation renounces a permanent collection and imagines itself as an open forest: a civic infrastructure made of light, natural ventilation, and continuously evolving programs.
